NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Discuss Kepler Planetary Discovery

NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new…

NASA Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test

An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has…

NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Discuss Kepler Discovery

NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new…

X-48 Project Completes Flight Research for Cleaner, Quieter Aircraft

NASA's remotely piloted X-48C hybrid-wing-body subscale aircraft, which demonstrates technology concepts for cleaner and quieter commercial…

NASA Announces Challenges for the 2013 International Space Apps Challenge

NASA and over 150 partner organizations worldwide will be hosting the International Space Apps Challenge on…

First Shuttle Launch

A new era in space flight began on April 12, 1981, when Space Shuttle Columbia, or…

NASA Selects Explorer Projects To Probe Earth’s Upper Atmosphere

NASA has selected a new satellite mission and a new space-based instrument to begin development as…

NASA TV Provides Coverage of Space Station Spacewalk

Two members of the Expedition 35 crew will venture outside the International Space Station April 19…

NASA’s SOFIA Flying Observatory Marks 100th Flight

Staff of NASA's SOFIA observatory gathered in front of the flying telescope to mark the 100th…

80th Anniversary of Sunnyvale Naval Air Station

Image: U.S.S. Macon moored at south end of Hangar 1 (1934). Today is the 80th anniversary…